Oakton High School and Chantilly High School
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Anonymous
| That’s a wealth of information. Thank you. What about my high schooler (to be in two weeks) prospects to Chantilly High School admission? If we look for home in the above zip codes (& communities) will she get admitted straight into Chantilly High School? We are moving from DE. Thanks in advance! |
Anonymous
you can go on the www.fcps.edu website and put in any address and it will tell you which HS you are zoned for. You go to the HS you are zoned for. There is no "admittance" for other HS (unless you apply in Jan. to go out of bounds to a school that has a different program for language or IB/AP that your zoned school does not have.). But, suffice to say that if you are looking to buy a house and move into it in the next two weeks -- or two months for that matter --- your child will be attending the school that is zoned for that residence. Go to the FCPS website. |
Anonymous
Yes. Chantilly is a base HS. If you move into a Chantilly zoned home, your child will immediately start at Chantilly. And AAP stops in high school, with open enrollment Honors and AP. So, she will not have an issue registering classes. Freshmen take: English (honors or not) World History (Honors or not) ——> there is an option for an Honors English/Honors WH integrated block that prepares you for 10th grade WH Math (Honors or not— most kids are Geometry or Algebra II) Biology (Honors or not) Health and PE Foreign language (Chantilly offer French, Latin, Spanish and German, no honors language option) Elective Slot: BEWARE— new requirement this year in VA that entering freshmen take two consecutive years of electives (which sucks IMO). So your kid needs to be aware that if they take Art, Band, Orchestra, etc., they are stuck for two years or have to restart the clock. Ugghh! The school will caution against taking all core honors classes. But lots of kids coming into Chantilly from Carson and RRMS with all AAP classes in very strong MSs. The strong students will take all honors, despite what the school says. Welcome! I put 2 kids through Oak Hill and Carson, and loved both schools. The oldest is a rising senior at TJ and the youngest is getting ready to start Chantilly as a freshman this fall. We have been very impressed with Chantilly, which has a great reputation among our neighbors and DC2’s friends’ older siblings and their parents. A lot of nice, down to earth hard working kids with nice, down to earth parents. A significant subset of kids who are very focused on academics and who are members of academic teams (debate, FIRST robotics, science Olympiad, etc), and DC2 has a posse of very nice friends who proudly call themselves nerds and wear t-shirts from science camp and making science puns and references. It’s a big school, so this is by no means the only type of kid or the only social scene. But if it’s what your DC is looking, it definately exists. |
Anonymous
Franklin has a very strong local Level IV program. The teachers have been teaching AAP for 4-5 years, and they'very built a fantastic program. Franklin's AAP program is small, but it's stellar. Therefore, if you, OP, move into a Franklin-districted neighborhood, you have the option of placing your child at Franklin. |
Anonymous
I live in the Franklin attendance area, but don’t have kids in the MS yet. A couple of my neighbors were saying that they regretted sending their kids to Franklin LLIV over Carson AAP because the Franklin AAP program was too small (all the kids had all their classes together for two years which was smothering for MS kids) and because Franklin had problems with drugs this year. They said there were police at the school during school hours and on the school buses with the kids with drug sniffing dogs? Are the stories about there being a drug problem true? I had thought it would be better to send my rising 6th grader to Franklin then Chantilly to stay with her peers. But talking to them definately has me rethinking. |
Anonymous
Yowwzza. I just asked my Franklin base school just graduated from Carson kid about this and she said that she had heard about it from her Franklin Friends, but had assumed it was a rumor. The Franklin v. Carson choice was was tough for us. Guess we chose right. |
Anonymous
That isn't 100% true about the AAP kids having all their classes together for two years. Even years that there's only been one AAP class, the students were not necessarily together for math, PE, or either of their electives, so that certainly isn't true that they had all their classes together. HOWEVER, the "issue" with some students being together all day can occur in ANY middle school because FCPS uses the team model, so some students happen to wind up with identical schedules. That happened to two of my friends' kids (at a MS other than Carson or Franklin ). They had 5 or 6 of their 7 classes together because they were both in the same band, were both in Algebra in 7th grade, and both took the same other classes. I am surprised that any parents would say they regret sending their kids to any school because of one possible issue that may or may not have happened one year. And labeling something that is probably either a rumor, or is exaggerated, as a "drug problem" is absurd. |
Anonymous
Carson doesn’t usually have kids together for more than a couple classes. Because on any given team, there are at least three AAP sections. So even kids on the same team, there are a lot of permutations. DD was excited to be on the same team as 2 close friends this year. She had one class with her BFF— orchestra. She had orchestra and English with the other. Same elective and that’s it. Carson also mixes up the teams between 7th and 8th, so kids don’t stay with the same group for two years. I think it’s a good thing for two reasons. First, DD got into a spat with a Franklin based friend when she was in 7th and there was texting drama and sobbing drama and she betrayed me drama. I was so grateful that she was not sitting in 3 core classes plus orchestra with this girl for two years. Because I was over the tweenage girl drama as it was. Second, DD freaked about starting Carson because it was so much bigger that ES and who would she eat lunch with and what if she knew no one on in her classes. And a little bit apprehensive about 8th, because new teams and during some blocks she didn’t have the same lunch group. But now heading into a large HS, she’s like, NBD. I know a bunch of kids from Carson, and there were nice kids at orientation and if I need to meet new kids to be lab partners with or lunch buddies with, I can. So I’m glad she got some experience with a larger environment before she was in a school with 3000 kids. The Franklin drug thing floored me, because that is not Franklin’s reputation. Or so I thought. But yeah— these were some pissed on parents, one of whose kid was apparent held on the school bus while the drug sniffing dog went through. This is someone I know and trust whose kid was directly impacted. So I rate it higher than a rumor. And it seems like that, plus dealing with the cliques that inevitably happen when the same 25 kids are together for at least half their classes in the “smartest” section had taken a toll. |
Anonymous
| Gosh, if there’s this much nervousness over schools in some podunk part of Fairfax County, I can only imagine what it’s like elsewhere. |
Anonymous
Podunk? Technology corridor? vs swamp dwellers |
Anonymous
The TJ feeder MSs are Podunk? Yeah— why send your kid to Carson when you could live closer in and send your kid to a Mount Vernon or Lee feeder? They’ll get a great education there. 
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Anonymous
I have lived in Chantilly feeder and lived much closer in. I would rather my kids be associated with smart, hard working, driven podunkkids with involved parents than kids whose parents have more money than sense. BTDT. And the Podunk kids are a much better peer group. Closer in, houses where 4th graders have their own ”master suite” in the McMansion and their parents pre-ordered the latest iPhone for them to take to ES because all the kids had them and keeping up with the Jones’s. And mean girls in 3rd grade with mean girl moms. And money and status being priority #1. And earning money by being the swamp, and you never meet Dad because Dad is never home and mom deals with the kids anyway. If that ‘s what’s cool, hard pass. I’ll take Podunk. Much better reflection of our values. |
Anonymous
If you are ten minutes or less from truly authentic food from every nationality imaginable Walking distance from an H Mart Soon to be ten minutes from metro (if it runs) *** the Vegas odds favorite for HQ2 Send your kids to the local MS, which has kids from at least 2 dozen counties and some years sends more than 100 kids to TJ. And wins most state academic titles 20 minutes from Tyson’s in rush hour Have Hindu, Christian, Catholic and Muslim neighbors in your cul de sac Have neighbors who staff theeast coast technology corridor and neighbors with significant jobs in almost every federal agency Know kids who take violin lessons from the (local) Asst. concertmaster of the NSO How Podunk can you be? I grew up in the small town South. Carson/Chantilly is not Podunk. Nice try though. |
Anonymous
Aren't you the poster who moved from Vienna/Oakton to Chantilly? You are always contrasting Chantilly with other areas of NoVa. And you're far too easily baited, since the poster who referred to "some podunk part of Fairfax County" probably lives anywhere but Fairfax County. I"m sure he's enjoyed his popcorn reading your response. |
Anonymous
Nope. You have A DP. We were in the McLean pyramid. |